Le plaisir

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Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, urban bordellos, and painter’s studios of late nineteenth-century French life, Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and storytelling bravura to this triptych of tales by Guy de Maupassant about the limits of spiritual and physical pleasure. Featuring a stunning cast of French stars (including Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin, and Simone Simon), Le plaisir pinpoints the cruel ironies and happy compromises of life with a charming and sophisticated breeziness.

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Max Ophuls acquired an enviable reputation both on-screen and behind the scenes. Most actors, male or female, loved him, and if technicians complained of the amount of work necessitated by his . . .
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Film Essays

Max Ophuls acquired an enviable reputation both on-screen and behind the scenes. Most actors, male or female, loved him, and if technicians complained of the amount of work necessitated by his . . .
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Toronto’s TIFF Cinematheque is honoring the irreplaceable film critic and scholar Robin Wood, who died last December, by running some of the films that were important to him. The series, which . . .
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Film Essays

Max Ophuls acquired an enviable reputation both on-screen and behind the scenes. Most actors, male or female, loved him, and if technicians complained of the amount of work necessitated by his . . .
Read more »